Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 22 The land of Ming Dynasty
Time flies, and it has been several months since the founding of the country.

In the middle of the night, the bustling imperial city fell silent.The East Palace was brightly lit, and Zhu Biao sat alone on the steps in front of the palace and meditated.

Zheng Sanbao saw that the prince was worried, so he stood behind him and waited silently.

Recently, Lao Zhu has announced the list of feudal dukes and nobles in advance. This is completely a template in history.

But for Zhu Biao, he doesn't care who seals what, as long as he doesn't come out to force him when he reforms, otherwise they will be uncoordinated and looking for cuts.

Li Shanchang was a little dissatisfied with Liu Bowen being the prince's junior teacher. This Zhu Biao was too lazy to take care of him. He picked Liu Bowen himself to better study the set of things left by Guo Shoujing and Wang Zhen.

Old Zhu attached great importance to family affection in his bones. He only expressed a few opinions on Zhu Biao's choice of Liu Bowen, and let him go.

Zhu Biao can personally find someone to ask for, but it is too late to be happy as a father.

Lao Zhu supported his own matter, and Zhu Biao felt that he must be happy.

Now that the country is founded, many decisions can be changed and negotiated.

There is only one big thing to consider:

land acquisition issues.

Because there are too many involved, too complicated.

In the agricultural era, land annexation was not a good thing for the imperial dynasty.

This led to a decrease in the land and population directly controlled by the imperial court, affecting tax revenue and the amount of military corvee.

Large-scale landowners may also become local separatist forces and influential aristocratic families.

In history, the rise and fall of dynasties are closely related to land.

The process is: the founding and unification of the country and then enfeoffment, then the aristocrats occupied and merged the land, the peasants lost their land, natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people rebelled, and it started again and again.

In the early days of the dynasty, there was a small population and a large amount of land, with fewer people and more land.

During the peaceful and prosperous age, the population increased, and there was an upper limit for land reclamation, and the per capita land possession gradually decreased.

The strong annexed the land wantonly, resulting in countless people without land, and had to become refugees in groups to make a living.

If these refugees have self-cultivated land and food, even if natural disasters and plagues break out, part of the damage can be reduced.

But when the land is merged, disasters will inevitably occur, and the dynasty will be destroyed.

The destruction of the dynasty has a devastating blow to the population, the war has led to the abandonment of the land, the reduction of food production, and the era of extremely low productivity after the famine and plague attacks are simply irresistible.

It is the landlord who guides this law.

No matter what happens.

Landlords live off the land,
The land will not run away, the title deed is in hand, and the food grown is their own. As long as the social situation remains unchanged, they will not starve to death.

Annexation of land will continue.

The root of land annexation is land private ownership, which is the necessary premise of small-scale peasant economy, and small-scale peasant economy is the economic foundation of feudal rule.

Equal land system, granting land according to the number of people, restricting land sales, one whip...

These only worked to a certain extent.

Wang Mang's land system also failed.

The tyrants colluded with the government, forcibly occupied the peasants' land, and used all feasible means to evade the corresponding taxes and annex the land.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were in power, manipulated the government, sold officials to sell nobles, and corruption was very serious.

Before the advent of the industrialization era, the reincarnation around the land was unavoidable for imperial dynasties, and they could not escape the cycle.

Only when land reform is completed, capital and manpower are liberated from the land, and the common people are freed from the land, are the basic conditions for the development of industrialization.

Only the founding emperor has the ability to reform and fight against the bureaucracy. He is the founding prince anyway, and it is easier to do it now than later.

With the development of productivity, the quantity of agricultural products produced has increased, the grain harvest has continued to increase, and the labor force required has continued to decline.

For Zhu Biao, now is the best time.When the Ming Dynasty was founded, most of the land was owned by small farmers, and land annexation did not exist yet.

The main purpose now is to double the land to grow food and accelerate the development of the commodity economy.

According to their own experience at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people saw hope and devoted themselves to commerce and handicrafts one after another, gradually embarking on industrial development.

Industry is naturally necessary, and the basic condition is the development of productive forces.When the time comes, the people will have more food than they can eat, and when they will not have to worry about clothes for a few lifetimes, they will naturally think about business and will not be obsessed with land annexation.

Only when the basic food and clothing are settled, will there be other needs.

Combined with the results of the late Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao believed that various methods to prevent land annexation could not last a lifetime.

And what he wants is to get rid of the root cause.

In order to liberate productivity, it is necessary to establish research institutions such as agriculture, water conservancy, and industry.

These institutions Zhu Biao already had a general idea in his mind, and he needed to write it down and hand it over to Zhu Yuanzhang, hoping that he would agree.

According to history, in the early years of the founding of the country, because of the war, the people left their fields and became refugees.

As a result, many fields were left uncultivated and there was no food.

For Zhu Biao, so far it is to make the people willing to grow food and then achieve high yields.

Establish your own Daming Institute of Science and Technology, manufacture agricultural machinery, pesticides and fertilizers, and modern water conservancy facilities, prevent pests, droughts and floods, and breed.

To satisfy the common people with enough food and clothing, and firearm training are all things that Zhu Biao has to plan in advance now.

If I want to liberate the labor force now, I have to develop agriculture first, and transform it step by step according to the situation of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

His goal is to restore the common people to agricultural production and let the Academy of Science and Technology continue to deepen and transform the previous historical dynasties.

When the grain yield increased, the goals of the people also shifted.

Only by gathering experienced craftsmen can we develop extraordinary skills, and the experience of craftsmen is accumulated over the years.

Mining minerals, using resources, and having silver can train troops, develop firearms, expand the territory of Ming Dynasty, and capture Mobei.

The notes left by Wang Zhen and Guo Shoujing are very precious to formulate appropriate economic development according to the geographical differences between the north and the south.

Agriculture, medicine, astronomy and the four great inventions can all be had, and there are things that the Ming Dynasty cannot have.

Even the solutions owned by ancient residents such as copper sulfur, salt sulfuric acid unearthed from antiquities are used as battery solutions.

Acetic acid, sulfuric acid or citric acid can also be used as an electrolyte for the pottery pot and its contents. When it is injected into the copper tube, the model will generate a voltage of 1.5 volts, and the current will disappear after more than ten days.

The ancient GPS positioning technology --- astrology, precisely because of the astrology, in the early Ming Dynasty when there was no satellite navigation and the telescope was not invented, Zheng He used it to achieve seven voyages to the Western Ocean, a feat of floating more than [-] li!
Astrology originated in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Its tool is called a star board, which can be used to determine the position of a ship in the sea, so as to guide the ship's navigation so as not to lose its direction. Unfortunately, the title fell on Magellan.

Zhu Biao felt that in this life, the star-leading board could only belong to Daming.

Start a great voyage and introduce overseas products.

As long as you work hard, everything will come true.

Zhu Biao said in his heart: The fate of Daming is up to me, Zhu Biao.

One day, the weapons of the Ming army will sweep across thousands of miles, and wherever the big ships sail, they will be the land of the Ming Dynasty!

Wherever the sun and moon shine and where rivers and rivers reach, there is a great tomorrow.

There is no longer the shame of a strong ship bombarding the country, and there is no longer the humbleness of the Han people, and there is only a big tomorrow.

The sun and the moon will always be there, and Daming will always be there.

　The boss counts the votes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)